Fumaça Preta’s hard hitting, free-wheeling debut LP brings together elements of tropicalia, psychedelic rock, fuzz funk, musique concrete, acid house, radiophonic electronics, hair metal, voodoo and African, Brazilian and Latin rhythms. Beaming down from another planet and sonically stretching across decades, ‘Fumaça Preta’ is released on Soundway Records.Fumaça Preta (pronounced Foomassa Pretta, meaning Black Smoke) started as a studio experiment when Alex Figueira, a Portuguese-Venezuelan producer and percussionist, invited some old friends to join him in the tiny analogue studio he built on the back of his house in Amsterdam.

Having made a name for themselves as a cutting edge, genre-bending live and recording act on their debut, Fumaça Preta’s ’Impuros Fanáticos’ pushes one step further. Crossing psychedelia, free jazz, metal, tambu, voodoo, fado and a lot more, the album is a musical cocktail and a journey of experimentation. From the meticulous recording of discarded metalwork in an abandoned factory in the middle of the Spanish desert, to a late night voodoo ritual in a remote village on the Venezuela/Brazil border, to steel drums recorded in a disused military base in Czech Republic, the record has a truly unique sound and feel, whilst retaining the band’s frenzied grooves at its core.

Who can ignore a band with a name this blatant? But If you think this is ‘Fusion’ in a traditional sense, Think again. An epic soundtrack to an erawhen Spain was adjusting to a new political era, with its own Catalan swagger” Guillermo S.Herren (aka Prefuse 73 aka Savath y Savalas).· "Imagine a Spanish merging of Soft Machine and Egg... A Catalan Canterbury rather than many who reside in Can’t-erbury” – Cherrystones.